Advanced Ancient Civilizations That Left Unexplained Ruins Before they Disappeared (Video)

The incredible Lost Ruins of Lemuria, the Kings of the Rama Empire, the sunken City of Heracleion in Egypt, and five separate locations where temples, pyramids, a man made bridge hundreds of thousand of years old and statues from Atlantis are once more resurfacing in our world.

Nearly every culture of the world has legends of the great civilization of Atlantis, and the Great Flood that took it down some 12,000 years ago.

For over two hundred years researchers have sought for it, excavating some 40 different locations as they tried to match it with the description given by Plato some 2300 years ago: that Atlantis lay outside of the Straits of Gibraltar, and was larger than North Africa and Asia Minor combined.

But is Atlantis rising in the world today, just as Edgar Cayce predicted?

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You Won't Believe That These Mysterious Lakes/Rivers Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them

The natural world is an ever changing, ever shifting beast. Mountains rise, valleys form, glaciers meander across the landscape; the face of our planet is malleable, ever moving.  But if we asked you to name the strangest natural phenomena on Earth, chances are that nobody would say “lakes”. Bad move. Turns out these placid-seeming bodies of water are home to some of the craziest, weirdest Easter eggs of the natural world.  These lakes are unique in their own ways, some even bordering on strange. But we all like a little absurdity in our lives every so often, don’t we? Here are 15 Most Mysterious Lakes On Earth

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What Lies Beneath Area 51 + Man Who Spoke Out About Area 51 Has An Invention (Video)

MYSTERIOUS crater-shaped hole in the ground near to Area 51 is “unlike anything ever seen” and has prompted theories that the bizarre crater could be an entrance to an underground military base.

 A bizarre crater appeared on Google Earth earlier this week close to Area 51 and appears man-made with a strange tower emerging out of the huge ditch. The incredible discovery was revealed by Blake and Brett Cousins – of YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon – who captioned the footage: “We Found Something Underneath Area 51.” In the footage, a large, thin object can be seen poking out of the middle of a large circular hole in the ground.

The shock revelaton has sparked a frenzy of theories, including that the huge tower inside the vent is the tower of a new top-secret underground military base.

Speaking about his discovery, Blake Cousins says: “Conspiracy theorists are going wild right now.

“This could be some sort of vent or a tower embedded within a crater close to Area 51. This not a natural phenomenon, it is quite a mystery.

He said: “It doesn’t relate to any of the other craters in the area – this one looks like a tower or a vent.

“It is a massive crater – the tower looks like it is dozens of feet tall.

“This crater doesn’t relate to any of the other craters. There is no measuring device coming out of it.

“There might be a base or something underneath. It has been dug out, carved out by humans. You hear about Area 51 as a massive city underneath the ground. This could be linked.

“It shouldn’t be there, it shouldn’t exist.

The crater is just miles from the top-secret military base Area 51, which has previously been linked to various alien experiments. 

The Man Who Spoke About Area 51 And Was Ridiculed, Now He Invented A Car That Runs With Water,

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Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)

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Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move, fast. And we don’t know why

Earth’s magnetic field is what allows us to exist. It deflects harmful radiation. It keeps our water and atmosphere in place. But now it’s acting up — and nobody knows why.

By Jamie Seidel | news.com.au

Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive.

But, according to the science journal Nature, something strange is going on deep down below.

It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia.

“The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move,” Nature reports.

Graphic via Science Journal Nature

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On January 30 (delayed due to the US Government shutdown), the World Magnetic Model — which governs modern navigation systems — is due to undergo an urgent update.

This model is a vital component of systems ranging from geopositioning systems used to navigate ships through to smartphone trackers and maps.

The current model was expected to be valid until 2020. But the magnetic pole began to shift so quickly, it was realised in 2018 that the model had to be fixed — now.

“They realised that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable (safe) limit for navigational errors,” Nature reports.

FICKLE TIDES

Every year, geophysicists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey do a check on how the Earth’s magnetic field is varying.

This is necessary as the liquid iron churning in the Earth’s core does not move in a consistent manner.

“In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean,” Nature reports.

This shift was captured by satellites.

Earth has lines of magnetic force looping from North Pole to South Pole, creating Earth's protective magnetosphere. The straight line coming out of the North and South Poles represents Earth's axis of rotation.

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• RELATED: Something weird’s happening deep beneath the South Atlantic

But the movement of the north magnetic pole has been the object of study since 1831. Initially, it was tracked moving into the Arctic Ocean at a rate of about 15km each year. But, since the mid 1990s, it has picked up speed.

It’s now shifting at a rate of about 55km a year.

But another recent study has revealed the Earth’s magnetic field has been acting up now for some 1000 years.

CORE OF THE MATTER

Why the magnetic field is shifting so dramatically is unknown.

“Geomagnetic pulses, like the one that happened in 2016, might be traced back to ‘hydromagnetic’ waves arising from deep in the core,” Nature reports. “And the fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada”.

This fast-flowing molten river appears to be weakening the magnetic influence of the iron core beneath North America.

• EXPLORE MORE: How humanity survived a supervolcano

“The location of the north magnetic pole appears to be governed by two large-scale patches of magnetic field, one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia,” Phil Livermore of the University of Leeds told an American Geophysical Union meeting. “The Siberian patch is winning the competition.”

And, as global warming opens up more shipping lanes to the north of Russia and Canada, this presents a potentially deadly problem.

“The fact that the pole is going fast makes this region more prone to large errors,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA.

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With the recent release of articles by James Iandoli and Twitter user @Jay09784691, and hosted by Danny Silva and myself, we see an interesting connection between materialist biology and science, and the mystical non-physical world of esoteric metaphysics. The work being done by Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford University and Dr. Christopher ‘Kit’ Green, a medical doctor, create a symbiosis between the real and the ‘unreal,’ between the natural and the super-natural.

Being a product of a good Jesuit education, I am reminded of St. Paul. Around 54 CE, Paul wrote his famous letters to the Corinthian churches. Known to most Bible readers as 1 Corinthians, Paul expresses in those letters the basic notions of what the Church ought to be. Moreover, his ideas lay the foundation for the dogma of most Catholics. His ideas, though two millennia old, continue to resonate. In 1 Corinthians 15:49 (NIV), he wrote,

“And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.”

Being a student of various esoteric philosophies, I am also reminded of Hermeticism, and the infamous, though dubiously sourced phrase,

“As above, so below.”

It seems Paul and early Hermeticists were on similar paths. What is physical reflects the mystical, and vice versa. To paraphrase what Jesus said to Peter, what is bound on Earth is also bound in Heaven. I’m going to guess that Christ was being both literal and metaphorical here. The material and the immaterial are shadows of the other, mirrors, which reflect the other in themselves.

The realm Nolan and Green seem to be dabbling lies in the gap between the material and the immaterial. The biological evolution of the human brain hardwired to sense the natural world around it, yet simultaneously wired to ‘sense’ the super-natural. While we can only speculate, since this study is in its infancy, we seem to be going through a shift in general perception regarding science, but more importantly, what we deem to be real.

While empiricism and materialism may still reign supreme, the turn towards a more holistic and idealist approach to the world around us has been slowly taking shape over the last several decades. What has been occurring is not a revolution in thinking, but rather an evolution. With the incredibly broad implications and complications of a strange and spooky quantum universe, and with the development of better and more rigorous testing for anomalous science, such as various psi phenomena, everything we used to take for granted is beginning to slowly evolve into something different.

I am not suggesting some “end of days” scenario for mainstream science, nor some dramatic shift towards a world full of New Age hipster academics who believe in The Great Spirit (though, the times they certainly are a’ changing). This shift will be slow and cautious. Perhaps it will be a quiet return to some bygone age where the physical measurable work of scientists was also the mystical work of shamans seeking to understand some version of a Neoplatonist anima mundi. It may sound silly. Perhaps it is. It is a strange world we live in, and while empiricism’s goal is to make it less strange, perhaps it is time to embrace the strange.    

Nolan and Green’s hypothesis concerning the connectivity between the brain’s caudate and the putamen structures as being a potential indicator of high cognitive functioning is incredibly fascinating. Moreover, the theories presented by Nolan and Green suggest that this brain system also leads to the potential of ‘sensing’ data and information beyond the five normal senses. Their presentation at Harvard did mention certain candidates in their study who often see and hear things beyond the five senses and possess a sort of “sixth sense” that allows the individual to interact with shades of the universe beyond our current understanding.

Putamen and Caudate Brain Structure

(artist rendering, not to scale)

Putamen and Caudate Brain Structure

(image from Nolan & Green)

I’ve asked this before in previous posts, and I address this idea more in my book, but are we a simultaneous blend of immaterial systems and material structures? Am I made of dreams and bones?

Returning to ancient religious traditions, such as the writings of St. Paul and the texts of the Hermeticists, Nolan and Green are walking down a well-trodden path, and in good company. This new and unique look at these physical brain structures may be a key to understanding these esoteric ideas which have been around for thousands of years. Our ancient predecessors would not have had the ability to understand the complex physical system of the brain, but they did have the awareness and the insight to understand that the mind was reflexive and reflective of a symbiotic, if not divine, system of the Other.

In my book, I refer to the UFO community as a collection of ghosts who haunt the broader mainstream culture by constantly challenging popular interpretations of reality. Much like ghosts, the community exists, for better and for worse, in the anarchic gap between what is understood and what isn’t. Like so many other religious and spiritual movements, perhaps Nolan and Green are scratching at the surface of what causes communities like the UFO community to form. Jacques Vallee referred to this intelligent Other as a ‘control system,’ and indeed it very well may be, but our various cultures and societies also seem to give it shape (and at times, breadth and depth). In other words, we are influenced by this Other as much as we influence it.

It stands that if there is some Other, well above us in awareness, or ‘intelligence,’ and agency, then indeed, our only tool, our immaterial mind and material brain, which allows for creativity, intellect and imagination must be housed below. Our thoughts and ideas are not totally our own, but part of a larger system. To steal from Jung, we seem to be shadows of something larger, yet in our own right, also seem to cast shadows upon that broader body. Nolan and Green may be at the gateway to this realm of the Other; perhaps they have found the door, and all that is missing now is the key.

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Something weird is going on in the skies over the United Kingdom. Of course, I would argue that something weird is happening in the skies all over the world. From unexplained booms to mysterious fireballs, something just doesn’t seem right overhead. Of course, it could merely be that between cameras and the citizen reporting made possible by social media, we’re just more aware of minor meteor impacts and atmospheric events than we used to be. Still, it seems like there is a pattern of aerial strangeness lately that suggests something weird or new is happening. I’m not crazy, right?

If meteor impacts were becoming more common, would government agencies want to incite panic by making it public?

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, in particular, there has been a recent string of strange UFO reports and aircraft activity suggesting military exercises or perhaps something stranger. In November 2018, multiple commercial pilots witnessed mysterious fast-moving lights off the coast of Ireland, and a month later the Royal Air Force was scrambled to intercept an unidentified flying object above East Yorkshire. Then there was the whole strange saga of the “drone” sightings at England’s Gatwick airport, an incident which has yet to be fully explained. What’s going on in the skies over the British Isles?

Whatever is going on, it’s still going on. Today, news broke of a mysterious green flash seen in the skies above Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in central England, not too far from where the December UFO incidents were reported. Rather than an unidentified aircraft, this time eyewitnesses reported a bright green light or streak in the sky on the evening of January 8.  Some witnesses described the light as “neon green” or “white and a bit green” while some say the light was blue. All reports describe the object as incredibly fast – too fast for conventional aircraft.

Green fireballs are some of the most commonly reported unidentified aerial phenomena.

One witness, Debbie Pickard of Ilkeston, thought the object was flying at a low altitude over nearby homes and says this isn’t the first time she’s seen such an object:

It was as if something shot through the houses. It did not look very high and it looked like it was travelling horizontally. It’s a UFO by definition. It was like someone had thrown a frisbee. Me and my dad spotted a similar thing in 1988, it was in the papers then and confirmed on Gatwick radar. You do wonder what these things are.

UK Meteor Watch and the American Meteor society reported dozens of reports of a fireball that night. Meanwhile, speculation on social media about what the light could have been ranges from the International Space Station, fighter aircraft cockpit display panels, or spotlights. With the RAF Donna Nook bombing range and RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby bases nearby just to name a few, it’s also possible that the light was caused by military activity. Until more details emerge, if they ever do, we’ll just have to keep our eyes upward and wonder what’s going on up there.

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Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: the Rotating Black Holes would be a great name for a band.

That being said, with the nasty reputation black holes have for destroying everything that gets close to their namesake characteristic, it seems strange that scientists might consider them to be a safe and efficient means of hypersonic travel. And yet, that’s exactly what a new study proposes … providing you use the right kind of black hole. And that, if you’ve been paying attention instead of registering that new band name, is the rotating black hole.

“If the black hole like agittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then Interstellar” have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.”

Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.

Gaurav Khanna, a National Science Foundation-funded physicist and co-author of “Physical objects approaching the Cauchy horizon of a rapidly rotating Kerr black hole” (published in Physical Review D) was kind enough to explain his theory in somewhat layperson’s terms in his recent essay in The Conversation. The study was inspired by the movie “Interstellar” in which Matthew McConaughey’s character falls into a fictional rapidly rotating black hole. Ph.D. student and study co-author Caroline Mallary wrote a computer model to simulate the same experience using Sagittarius A*. Spoiler alert (for the study, not the movie): it could work!

“What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.”

Khanna explains that the singularity in a rotating black hole is technically “weak” and won’t damage ships or other objects entering it. Also, Sagittarius A* is much smaller than the massive black hole in the movie (Gargantua), so the singularity would be easier for a ship to detect and be prepared for. The model also showed that the effects of the singularity — cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft – are constant rather than rapidly increasing, so the effects can be planned for without any surprises.

Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull

However (there’s always a ‘however’), the potential hyperspace travelers have to pick the ‘right’ rotating black hole – that is, one that is so far away from any other stars or their radiation that there are no outside disturbances which can affect the singularity. Unfortunately, Khanna points out that the known black holes all have dust, gas, radiation and other cosmic material rotating around them.

Of course, all of this is theoretical since the Catch-22 (another great movie and pertinent paradox) of rotating black holes is that we need to try one to see if it works … but the only way to get close enough to one is to successfully travel through one.

This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.

If only real space travel was as simple as band names and movies.

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Residents of Ontario, Canada had a rare and spectacular view of a very odd-looking upside down rainbow. Technically called a circumzenithal arc, it is caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere that act as a prism which refracts light and creates an upside down rainbow.

Although they look identical to a rainbow (with the exception of being upside down), they’re not technically rainbows. Rainbows are formed when light reflects off of water drops such as rain or fog, while a circumzenithal arc is the result of light refracting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere and are related to the very commonly seen halos that appear around the sun and moon. In addition, the weather has to be calm and cold, which is definitely not a problem with it being winter in Canada. Circumzenithal arcs normally appear when little to no clouds are in the sky.

The center of the bow is always towards the sun with the red color on the outside closest to the ground and purple at the top. They only happen when the sun is at a height of less than 32 degrees in the sky.

Canadian residents witnessed another beautiful phenomenon recently called “sundogs” which is when mini-suns appear hovering close on each side of our actual sun. The technical name is parhelion and the spots on each side of the sun are usually white but can sometimes appear as a reddish color located on the inside and blue on the outside.

Sundogs are created when the sun shines through a cirrus cloud that’s made up of hexagonal ice crystals that are falling with their axes located vertically. When the axes are arranged perpendicularly to the sun’s rays, they instead create the halo phenomenon. Sundogs appear at 22 degrees on either side of the sun and are also at the exact same height as our sun.

These sundogs can even be seen in tropical countries because the cloud layer is “cold no matter where you are,” according to British physicist Les Cowley.

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An upside-down rainbow is called a circumzenithal arc.

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The weather phenomena of a sun dog is caused by ice crystals in the sky.

(Submitted by Andy Breschuk)

The spots on either side of the sun can be reddish but are most often white.

(Submitted by Bonnie Stefishen)

So next time you’re outside on a bright sunny day, you may want to look up at the sky and you may catch a glimpse of a rare, but spectacular weather phenomenon.

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Bob Lazar Area 51 UFO Debate: Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell

This video is a clip from a UFO whistleblowers panel at the 2015 International UFO Congress. In this clip Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell debate Bob Lazar’s claims of having back-engineered alien spacecraft at an underground lab near Area 51. The emcee is Alejandro Rojas and the other panelists are Ruben Uriarte and Mark Pilkington.

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Triangle Flying Low Over Kansas

Kansas witness saw a TR3B a-like triangle UFO. MUFON closed the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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These 7 Expeditions Could Reveal Some of Earth's Biggest Secrets in 2019

4 Things Most UFO Sightings Have in Common

Theorists who believe we've been contacted by aliens tend to lean on these details.

By Emily Gaudette

You’re driving alone down a dirt road, and you’re falling asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, a burst of light streaks across the sky — there’s a floating, flat shape in the air right in front of your truck, and though it soared quickly into view, it seems to have stopped completely. A beam of light shoots out from underneath the craft, and a little man with huge eyes, an enormous head, and a tiny body appears in the middle of the road. He doesn’t want to hurt you; he just wants to stick a probe in your nasal cavity.

Why does this alien encounter story feel predictable and familiar? If humans have never encountered extraterrestrial life, then how did we decide across cultures that aliens have an instantly recognizable shape? If you visit the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, it becomes immediately clear that humans have decided on a visual shorthand for alien life: the flying saucers, the little green men with huge black eyes, three fingers, and medical probes. But where did these cliches come from?

In the “believer” community, common threads that connect the stories of “close encounters” include certain types of aliens, spacecraft, and the phenomenon of lost or frozen time. Inverse reviewed first-hand accounts of encounters with alien life to find commonalities, and these were the four most popular descriptors we came across.

4. The Gray Aliens

Non-believers often call extraterrestrials “little green men,” which is a reference to the commercialized, cartoon version of aliens. Truthfully, most people who profess to having had close encounters of the “third kind,” meaning contact with another living organism not from Earth, say the alien they met was gray.

Gray aliens — who are otherwise exactly as you’re imagining them, with big foreheads, tiny chins, bodies, and large black eyes — are understood among believers to be the most common. Or, at least, they’re the ones most likely to visit us here on Earth.

In fact, according to research compiled by author C.D.B. Bryan in his 1995 book Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter’s Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., 43 percent of reported encounters with aliens describe the figure the same way. People have described the grays as having a host of different personalities, temperaments, and objectives, but among this subsection of encounters, a few things hold true. The grays are always silent, they are always intelligent, and they almost always appear in groups.

Of course, there’s the enduring question of who beat whom to the “grays” archetype: believers or pop culture. If we consider science fiction literature as the origin point of these “grays,” then H.G. Wells is the inventor. In 1893, Wells described alien beings in a short story as “gray-skinned beings who were perhaps one meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch-black eyes.” In a serialized novel he wrote in 1901, Wells used this same description for his invented inhabitants on the moon.

The next time this specific type of alien appeared in pop culture, it was in the collected accounts of witnesses to what’s now called the 1947 Roswell Incident. Despite not being acquainted with each other before the incident, most of the people who reported seeing aliens in Roswell after the crash described them almost exactly the way Wells had.

Despite having originated in a science fiction story, the grays are collectively considered a definitive part of the conversation about alien life. At the UFO Festival in 2016, speakers on panels repeatedly referred to “the grays” as the most agreeable and least aggressive “type” of extraterrestrial that appears in witness reports.

3. The Study of Humans by Aliens

It’s very rare for a witness who professes they’ve made contact with alien life to say they were outright attacked. Perhaps because violent encounters would yield physical evidence — bruises, broken bones, signs of forced entry into one’s home — most people who say they were abducted or contacted by extraterrestrials describe aliens carrying out a calm, medicinal, and sometimes invasive form of study.

That means humans tend to agree on the narrative that aliens might have visited the Earth simply to study our bodies and culture. Of course, several times throughout his life, Stephen Hawking expressed his worry that extraterrestrial contact would cast the inhabitants of the Earth as vulnerable. After all, if an alien civilization were able to find Earth and travel to us, that means their technology would already outpace ours. “One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this,” Hawking said in 2016, referring to a potentially habitable planet known as Gliese 832c. “But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”

2. The Government Knows About These Aliens

Ever since the local government blamed the Roswell incident on a weather balloon, believers had maintained that the United States is fully aware of past run-ins with extraterrestrials. Most imagine a situation much like the one that plays out in 1996’s Independence Day, in which the president (Bill Pullman) is only told about the nation’s history of third-kind encounters when tensions between humans and aliens become untenable.

In 2014, Foreign Policy reported the US government had a contingency plan in place just in case a zombie apocalypse were to erupt, and paranormal theorists took that opportunity to investigate the government’s policy for alien life.

While the governments of the world have reportedly played around with loose post-detection policies for extraterrestrial life — tell the United Nations, share all available data, and maintain full transparency with the rest of the world — none have gone public with their plans.

When it comes to the theory that the American government knows about extraterrestrial life, hasn’t told its citizens, and is currently hiding proof, the nucleus of the conspiracy is Area 51 in Nevada. Many have claimed to have spotted evidence of alien life on the desert government property, but as far as we know, it’s only been used for experimental weapons development. That’s a creepy enough fact on its own.

1. A Flat Saucer Making Hair-Pin Turns Is Something That Happens

According to the world’s largest network of alien “believers,” the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network (MUFON), reports of alien encounters have made it clear that any visitors to Earth possess technology far more advanced than our own. Admittedly, if one were to search through MUFON members’ uploaded, original drawings, which they commission from those who say they’ve met aliens, there are noticeable similarities.

For whatever reason, believers don’t tend to say that alien spacecraft look like the rockets humans habitually send into the atmosphere. They’re never sitting in cars, either.

According to most eyewitness accounts, they look more like stealth drones, ranging in size from an entire football field to a single kayak. If they’re not completely smooth and saucer-shaped, they’re usually triangular in shape, and they almost always bear flashing lights.

Find out how The CW imagines alien life in the series premiere of Roswell, New Mexico on January 15th – Tuesday at 9/8c.

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When a U.S. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO

Did Interstellar get it right? Researchers say rotating black holes COULD be used as portals for hyperspace travel

• Researchers found all black holes are not created equal
• If the black hole  is large and rotating, 'gentle' travel could be possible

By GAURAV KHANNA FOR THE CONVERSATION

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. 

That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. 

A University of Massachusetts study found that black holes that are large and rotating enough could allow 'gentle' hyperspace travel.

They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. 

This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. 

That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.

Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. 

The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.

My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. 

If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. 

That's because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.

'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically 'weak,' and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. 

At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. 

But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one's finger through a candle's near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.

My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. 

This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.

In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film 'Interstellar,' set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey's character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. 

'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.

What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole's so-called inner horizon singularity. 

This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. 

Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.

Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. 

In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.

Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. 

But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.

The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.

WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?

Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light.

They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them.

Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.

How they are formed is still poorly understood.

Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull

Astronomers believe they may form when a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole.

Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy.

Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses.

When these giant stars die, they also go 'supernova', a huge explosion that expels the matter from the outer layers of the star into deep space. 

There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary's model. 

The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. 

While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.

Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary's work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.

Mallary's approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. 

Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.

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Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely. 

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Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.

Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.

Flying through a black hole

My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That’s because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.

The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically “weak,” and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one’s finger through a candle’s near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.

My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Interstellar,” set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey’s character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. “Interstellar” was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua’s physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.

Not even a bumpy ride?

What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.

Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.

The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.

There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary’s model. The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.

Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary’s work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.

Mallary’s approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.

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Phoenix Mars Lander: The First Spacecraft to Taste Martian Water

The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies

• The sun is destined to become a crystal white dwarf in around 10 billion years
• Experts found white dwarf stars form metallic oxygen and carbon crystal cores 
• Crystallisation delays cooling, stars could be billions of years older than thought 
• The oldest white dwarfs are likely to be almost fully crystal, researchers claim

By COLIN FERNANDEZ SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL

The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ - in 10 billion years’ time when it dies, scientists have found.

Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they run out of nuclear fuel and begin to cool down.

Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth.

They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock.

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The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ (artist's impression) - in 10 billion years’ time, scientists have found. Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they cool down

Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, said the observations proved a 50-year-old theory.

Dr Tremblay said: ‘This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallise, or transition from liquid to solid.

‘It was predicted fifty years ago that we should observe a pile-up in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colours due to crystallisation and only now this has been observed.

‘All white dwarfs will crystallise at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner.

‘This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky.

'The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.’

Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth. They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock (file photo)

The crystal spheres are made of carbon and oxygen under such high density their crystal structure will make them appear to be like a metal - although it is possible that diamonds may also form as the star cools.

Our sun is currently a yellow dwarf star.

Over the next five billion years it will cool down - in the process first expanding into a ‘red giant’ - then shrinking down to a white dwarf and gradually harden and solidify.

Eventually white dwarfs cool down into black dwarfs when they give off no more heat.

The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature.

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The Sun Will Turn Into a Giant Crystal Ball After It Dies

"All white dwarfs will crystallize at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner," study lead author Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, a physicist at the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement. 

"This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky," Tremblay added. "The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years."

Tremblay and his colleagues analyzed data gathered by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which launched in December 2013 to help researchers construct the best-ever 3D map of the Milky Way. Gaia does this by precisely monitoring the positions of huge numbers of stars; the mission team aims to study 1 billion stars over the spacecraft's operational lifetime.

For the new study, the researchers looked at Gaia measurements of about 15,000 white dwarfs, all of which lie within 330 light-years of the sun. These data revealed an odd "pileup" — an overabundance of white dwarfs with certain colors and brightnesses that cannot be explained by the objects' ages or masses.

Modeling work suggested that the pileup was caused by crystallization of the white dwarfs' interiors, which released enough heat to slow down the white dwarfs' cooling over time.

"This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallize, or transition from liquid to solid," Tremblay said. "It was predicted 50 years ago that we should observe a pileup in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colors due to crystallization, and only now this has been observed."

White-dwarf crystallization is akin to water freezing from liquid to ice. But the material in this case is oxygen and carbon, and it's crystallizing at temperatures that aren't exactly chilly. The process really kicks into gear when a white-dwarf interior cools down to about 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius), the researchers said.

The result is likely a core composed of crystallized oxygen and a mantle dominated by carbon.

"Not only do we have evidence of heat release upon solidification, but considerably more energy release is needed to explain the observations," Tremblay said. "We believe this is due to the oxygen crystallizing first and then sinking to the core, a process similar to sedimentation on a riverbed on Earth. This will push the carbon upward, and that separation will release gravitational energy."

The new results suggest that many white dwarfs are considerably older than scientists had thought — up to 15 percent older in some cases, study team members said. Astronomers generally age these stellar corpses by taking their temperature, and crystallization slows the cooling-off process. 

The study was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Nature.

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Scientists Find 13 Mysterious Deep-Space Flashes, Including 2nd Known 'Repeater'

CIA UPLOADS MILLIONS OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO ITS WEBSITE, INCLUDING INFORMATION ON UFOS AND PSYCHIC POWERS

The 'STAR GATE' remote viewing programme aimed to explore whether humans could be taught to be psychic

The CIA is putting its secret history online, uploading millions of newly declassified documents.

The documents include previously unseen information about the agency's hunt for UFOs and its work on the "Star Gate" project, which tried to teach humans to become psychic and see through walls.

One document, for instance, describes that project in detail. It shows how the CIA recruited volunteers to go through a programme of training that would let people access information without any of the usual means, and which would be used as a weapon for which there is "no known defense".

The US spy agency will put up 12 million pages into its online "reading room", where people will be able to search through the documents.

The previously classified pages include private briefs given to presidents and the information that is passed between its operatives. They cover everything from the Cold War and Vietnam to relatively modern problems like terrorism.

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  Presidential aide says regret is not securing release of UFO files

That means that people can see its history from its formation until the early 90s, for now. None of that is selected, the agency claims, meaning that it shows some of the agency and the US government's most controversial episodes.

The CIA has to declassify records that are 25 years old, unless they are made exempt. That means that each year it releases a whole new set of documents.

But this year that has been accompanied by the first time that the documents have been made available online. Until now, the documents could only be read on four terminals inside the US National Archives, in their original format.

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Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen

If you are interested in learning more about is really going on out in space then you need to watch this video. Special access programs can be massive in scope and can remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy for decades.

In recent years, several credible whistleblowers have stepped forward to disclose the highly advanced technologies and the highly compartmentalized systems. Faster-than-light interstellar travel allowing humankind to reach the stars is no longer the stuff of science fiction.

Interviews with insiders including Emery Smith, Clifford Stone, William Tompkins, Niara Isley and Corey Goode confirm that specific factions of humans here on Earth do have autonomous possession of interstellar travel technology, and the existence of a superluminal space naval fleet comprising various sizes and classes of vessels employing tachyon drive has been concealed from the public for many years.

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They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!

Explores the reality that there are part-human and part-extraterrestrial beings living on this planet. This video will explain how they came to be and what the motive is behind this phenomena.

Guided by their star families and other entities, they are dedicated to personal missions, which contribute to a larger process involving the flourishing of human consciousness, and the protection and evolution of life on Earth at this critical time.

Some of the experiencers are hybrid beings, embodying a significant portion of ET DNA and differentness from the rest of us. They are giving service to humanity while living among us.

Her presentation will include testimonies given in person by a few of these hybrids and visual depictions of the beings who created them, mentor them and inspire them.

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Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)

Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.

From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.

What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.

Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean

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Wetenschappers hebben herhaald radiosignaal opgevangen van diep in de ruimte - HLN.be

Bron: Nature, Independent, BBC

Er is al veel gespeculeerd over de uitstoot van radiosignalen in de ruimte. Ze zouden kunnen voortkomen uit een heel gamma aan bronnen, van exploderende sterren tot – jawel – ruimtewezens, maar de ware toedracht is nog altijd niet bekend. Opmerkelijk: ze duren maar een milliseconde, maar ze bevatten evenveel energie als wat de zon uitstoot in 12 maanden tijd.

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Mysterieus gaatje in capsule internationaal ruimtestation ISS blijkt van binnenuit geboord te zijn

Opwindend

Het opwindende aan de nieuwe waarneming is dat het om een herhááld radiosignaal gaat. Het kwam zes keer en leek van dezelfde plaats afkomstig. Bij de meer dan 60 snelle uitstoten van radiosignalen die al werden waargenomen, was er nog maar één van dat type.

“Dat er nu een tweede waarneming is, doet vermoeden dat er nóg meer kunnen zijn”, aldus Ingrid Stairs van het Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Colombia, dat de ontdekking deed. “En hoe meer gegevens we hebben, hoe groter de kans dat we deze kosmische puzzel op een dag kunnen oplossen: waar komen ze vandaan en waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?” (lees hieronder verder)

In totaal namen de wetenschappers 13 uitbarstingen waar in een periode van 3 weken tijd. Opvallend is dat de bron een heel breed gamma aan frequenties uitstootte. Zo werden er zeker 7 opgenomen op 400 MHz, de laagste frequentie waarop de signalen ooit werden waargenomen. Het houdt ook in dat er misschien nog meer kunnen zijn op nóg een lagere frequentie. Een frequentie die zo laag is dat de CHIME ze niet eens kan oppikken.

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“We weten nu dat de bronnen radiosignalen kunnen produceren op een lage frequentie en dat die golven aan hun omgeving kunnen ontsnappen en niet te veel uiteenvallen voor ze de aarde bereiken en waargenomen kunnen worden. Dat zegt ons iets over de omgeving waar ze vandaan komen en de bron. Het geeft ons meer stukjes om de puzzel op te lossen”, aldus Tom Landecker van CHIME.

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The CHIME telescope in British Columbia will search our universe for phenomena such as fast radio bursts, pulsars and more. 

(CHIME, Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)

This visible-light image shows the host galaxy of the fast radio burst FRB 121102. 

(Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF/NRC)

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Mysterious repeating radio signals have reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away (but are they evidence of alien civilisations?)

• Fast radio bursts are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly
• Repeating signals of this type have only been found once before - in 2015
• Most experts believe they are created by powerful objects found in space
• Others say they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology

By TIM COLLINS FOR MAILONLINE

Mysterious repeating energy bursts have been detected for only the second time. 

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study. 

The latest signals to be detected reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. 

The most likely explanation is that they were created by powerful objects in space.

Experts have debated whether black holes or super-dense neutron stars are responsible, but others have suggested more outlandish theories.

Among them is Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, who believes that they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology. 

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Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (pictured)

Video courtesy of CHIME Collaboration. 

FRB's were first detected accidentally in 2007, when a burst signal was spotted in radio astronomy data collected in 2001. 

The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by a Canadian-led team of astronomers on the hunt for FRBs. 

Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime). 

They found that one of the FRBs was repeating. 

Of more than 60 FRBs detected to date, such repeating bursts have only been picked up once before, by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015. 

Where the FRBs come from is not known - although they are thought to emanate from sources billions of light years away outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. 

Chime astrophysicist Dr Ingrid Stairs, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, said: 'Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB. 

'Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there. 

'And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them.' 

Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don't yet know what causes them (file photo)

Most of the 13 FRBs showed signs of 'scattering' that suggest their sources could be powerful astrophysical objects in locations with special characteristics, the scientists said. 

Team member Dr Cherry Ng, from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: 'That could mean in some sort of dense clump like a supernova (exploding star) remnant. 

'Or near the central black hole in a galaxy. But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see.' 

WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.

The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.

This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.

Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs

The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.

But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments. 

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.

A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances. 

This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang. 

A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.

FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang. The new FRBs are are also at unusually low radio frequencies. 

Most previously detected FRBs have had frequencies of around 1,400 megahertz (MHz), but the new ones fell within a range below 800 MHz. 

In 2017 Professor Loeb and Harvard colleague Manasvi Lingham proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters. 

Mysterious radio signals (artist's impression) have reached Earth - from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. The strange beams are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - and last only a millisecond (file image) 

Rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails. 

A light sail works by bouncing light, or in this case radio beams, off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust. 

Professor Loeb, who discusses the idea in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, said: 'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'

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KREKELS KUNNEN GEHEUGENVERLIES VEROORZAKEN

In september 2017 kampte personeel van de Amerikaanse ambassade in Cuba met een scala aan vreemde klachten waaronder doofheid, hoofdpijn, flauwvallen, gezichtsproblemen en sommigen wisten zelfs niet meer wie ze waren. 

Later gebeurde ongeveer hetzelfde met Amerikaans ambassade personeel in China en nu zouden krekels de oorzaak zijn van dit alles.

Iets dat wij nooit voor mogelijk hielden schijnt toch waar te zijn. Krekels zijn levensgevaarlijke dieren, want de geluiden die zij maken kunnen voor serieuze gezondheidsproblemen zorgen.

De mysterieuze ‘geluidsaanvallen’ op Amerikaanse en Canadese diplomaten in Cuba zijn afkomstig van bronstige krekels.

Nu hebben de machthebbers geen hoge pet op van de doorsnee intelligentie van de bevolking en beginnen de mainstream media (MSM) met de dag meer onzin te schrijven, maar dit verhaal is toch wel de overtreffende trap in het onderschatten van de intelligentie van het publiek.

In september 2017 waren het volgende soort berichten te lezen:

'Mysterieuze sonische aanvallen' met geluidsgolven hebben de Verenigde Staten doen besluiten om een aantal medewerkers terug te halen uit de ambassade in de Cubaanse hoofdstad Havana. Ook wordt Amerikanen geadviseerd niet meer naar Cuba af te reizen. 

Washington meldde vorige maand dat mysterieuze 'incidenten' op de ambassade tot fysieke klachten leiden. Verscheidene diplomaten of hun familieleden hadden last van gehoorproblemen, duizeligheid, tijdelijk geheugenverlies of andere symptomen. Vijf Canadezen op Cuba hadden vergelijkbare klachten.

De gezondheidsproblemen waren nog veel heftiger dan in het stukje hierboven staat. Sommige medewerkers werden doof, konden niet goed meer zien, vielen flauw of hadden geen benul wie ze waren.

En dat allemaal dankzij bronstige krekels.

Vanaf het begin werd het geluid omschreven als iets wat leek op het getjirp van krekels. Volgens twee wetenschappers die de opname analyseerden, is dat ook exact wat het is: het geluid van mannelijke krekels in paringstijd. Dat lieten Alexander Stubbs van de University of California in Berkeley en Fernando Montealegre-Z van de University of Lincoln in Engeland afgelopen week weten.

Het volgend is wat Tyler van Secureteam over al dit soort nonsens heeft te vertellen. 

Het volgende is een deel uit een eerder artikel en vertelt precies waar ze in Cuba en China in plaats van krekels wel mee te maken hadden. Iets dat men liever niet aan de grote klok hangt en daarom komen nu de krekels tevoorschijn als schuldigen.

Electronische wapens behoren tot de best bewaarde geheimen van de wereld. Overal worden er onschuldige mensen mee aangevallen en gemanipuleerd, uitgeschakeld, gemarteld en zelfs vermoord. De meesten hebben geen idee wat hen overkomt.

Iemand die eigenlijk alles weet over dit soort wapens is Dr. Barrie Trower, een gepensioneerde wetenschapper die tientallen jaren gewerkt heeft voor de Britse overheid met microgolfstraling. Hij heeft speciale expertise op het gebied van de invloed van deze straling op het functioneren van onze hersenen. 

Tijdens de Koude Oorlog al werd Amerikaans ambassadepersoneel in Moskou bestookt met elektronische microgolfwapens door de Russen. Toen er een opvallend hoog aantal kankergevallen voorkwam, werd het personeel gewisseld. Wederom, ook bij dit nieuwe personeel, deed zich hetzelfde voor. Dit weerhield de Amerikanen er echter niet van om nogmaals nieuwe menselijke proefkonijnen naar Rusland te sturen. 

In het begin van de jaren tachtig vonden er overal in Europa massale demonstraties plaats tegen de plannen om hier kruisraketten te plaatsen. Zo ook in Engeland, waar rondom de Amerikaanse basis Greenham Common in het Engelse Berkshire, zich een vreedzaam vrouwen protestkamp bevond met tienduizenden vrouwen. Ook deze geweldloze samenkomst werd vanaf de Amerikaanse basis aangevallen met microgolfwapens, met als gevolg dat er onder de deelnemers veel kankergevallen, gedragsstoornissen en zodanige depressie voorkwam dat ze alleen nog maar zelfmoord wilden plegen.

Zo beschouwde de overheid het als een succes toen men een normaal gezond mens als proefkonijn nam, deze bewerkte met microgolfwapens en vervolgens een onafhankelijke psychiater liet constateren dat het individu leed aan schizofrenie, paranoïde was en volledig de weg kwijt. Dat dit proefkonijn de rest van zijn natuurlijke leven in een gesticht moest doorbrengen werd simpelweg beschouwd als een bijkomend neveneffect, de test was een succes. 

Niet alleen kunnen dit soort microgolfwapens gebruikt worden om mensen krankzinnig te maken of kanker te geven, maar het is ook mogelijk om iemand stemmen in zijn hoofd te laten horen. Stemmen die deze mensen dan ook daadwerkelijk horen, variërend van de stem van een engel tot de stem van de duivel. Je merkt NIET dat je wordt bestraald.

Een misschien nog ergere verschrikking voor zover mogelijk, is de biologische oorlogsvoering met behulp van microgolfstraling. Bacteriën en virussen kunnen genetisch worden gemanipuleerd. Zo is het mogelijk voor bacteriën om tientallen of zelfs honderden jaren ergens slapend in de grond te liggen. Ze kunnen dan ineens weer tot leven komen door een bepaalde frequentie microgolf die hen raakt. Virussen daarentegen zijn niet dood en niet levend. Wel hebben ze een soort “gastheer” nodig om te kunnen bestaan en een bactierie is er zo een. 

Het is daarom mogelijk virussen in bacteriën te stoppen die vervolgens in slaaptoestand gaan. Door het genereren van een bepaalde frequentie kunnen ze weer tot leven worden gewekt en daarmee de virussen eveneens geactiveerd. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld met vakantie gaan naar Noorwegen of Denemarken en daar die slapende bacteriën uitstrooien. Er gebeurt verder niets en je kunt besluiten om deze honderd jaar of een paar uur met rust te laten, voordat je ze met een installatie als HAARP weer tot leven wekt door een signaal met een bepaalde frequentie naar de ionosfeer te sturen die dan precies te laten landen op de plek waar de bacterie ligt. Je kunt je duidezenden kilometers van de plaats verwijderd bevinden en deze stralen gericht laten aankomen.

Zo vraagt ook menigeen zich af, hoe het toch kan dat de politie tegenwoordig zo gewelddadig optreedt, of dat militairen die bij speciale eenheden hebben gewerkt ineens na thuiskomst allemaal aggressief zijn zodanig dat ze zelfs hun vrouwen slaan, soms tot de dood erop volgt. Ook hier spelen frequenties weer een heel belangrijke rol. 

In Engeland bijvoorbeeld gebruiken alle hulpdiensten het Tetra systeem voor communicatie. Zo vertelt Barrie Trower dat er opvallend veel kanker voorkomt onder hen. Niet alleen dat, maar ook hun gedrag wordt agressiever door de bijna permanente blootstelling aan bepaalde frequenties door het gebruik van die communicatieapparatuur. 

Hetzelfde gebeurt met de speciale troepen van het Amerikaanse leger die helmen dragen waarbij hun hersenen voortdurend worden blootgesteld aan frequenties die agressiviteit veroorzaken. Dit zijn bewezen feiten, geen aannames.

Dat is dan nog los van de frequenties die misschien met opzet richting politie en militair personeel worden gestuurd om ze agressiever te maken. Dit laatste gebeurt dan waarschijnlijk in het kader van het geheime Tetra Research Project waarbij naar hartenlust geëxperimenteerd wordt met levende en onwetende proefkonijnen. Een project wat nog tot minimaal 2018 gaat duren. Nogmaals, als je wordt bestraald dan heb je dat zelf niet in de gaten. Je gedrag verandert en is onbegrijpelijk voor je omgeving en jezelf.

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BEWIJS DAT ER INTELLIGENT LEVEN  IS OP MERCURIUS ( VIDEO )

Wij horen weinig over Mercurius, de kleinste planeet in ons zonnestelsel, maar misschien gaat dat nu veranderen. 

Er zijn nu beelden opgedoken van gebouwen op deze planeet en dat is moeilijk te verklaren omdat formeel buitenaards leven niet bestaat.

We horen veel over Mars en eigenlijk nooit iets over een planeet die niet eens zo gek ver van ons is verwijderd, Mercurius. 

Mercurius is de dichtst bij de zon staande en tevens kleinste planeet in ons zonnestelsel. De planeet is vernoemd naar de Romeinse god Mercurius vanwege de snelle omloop om de zon. Net als de Aarde is het een terrestrische planeet met een vast oppervlak dat veel overeenkomsten vertoont met dat van de Maan. Opmerkelijk is dat deze kleine planeet een vrij sterk magnetisch veld vertoont. Mercurius heeft geen manen.

De beste bron voor het aantonen van buitenaards leven is nog altijd (tussen de regels door lezen) NASA. Wanneer je de tijd neemt om de door hen gemaakte foto's te bestuderen, dan kom je vaak bijzondere dingen tegen, zoals het volgende op de planeet Mercurius.

Wanneer je verder inzoomt om dat deel dat met rood is omcirkeld dan komt er iets tevoorschijn dat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een gebouw.

De beelden zijn afkomstig van deze.bronfoto.

De snuffelaar die dit alles heeft ontdekt is uiteraard Scott Waring die zegt geen drugs nodig te hebben om high te worden, want dat hij dat wordt van dit soort ontdekkingen.

En misschien wel het meest overtuigende bewijs van alles is te zien op de volgende afbeelding. Het is een deel van de NASA foto en je ziet dat er een heel gedeelte onzichtbaar is gemaakt.

Waarom zou NASA dat doen als er niets bijzonders te zien zou zijn?

Wat ons betreft is dit één van de mooiste ontdekkingen in het nieuwe jaar en laat het zien en dat er wel degelijk intelligent leven bestaat op andere planeten en dat NASA het publiek voorliegt.

Niet dat beiden dingen nieuw zijn, maar wel leuk dat ze hier nu beiden nogmaals worden bevestigd. 

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“These are stressful, harsh conditions. Does the environment select for superbugs because they have an advantage?”

The “stressful, harsh conditions” are the inside of the International Space Station … conditions that the Russian space program suggested last year could drive a lonely and stressed astronaut to sabotage the ship by drilling a tiny hole (unproven and unlikely but the cause of the hole in the attached Soyuz capsule is still up in the air – pun intended) in order to trigger an emergency and be sent home. If the conditions on the ISS are bad for humans, what about their fellow passengers – the bacteria they bring with them on their bodies, their ships and their cargo? Could the hole have been secretly drilled by superbugs intent on taking over the ship and possibly the planet?

“The built environment contains a variety of microorganisms, some of which pose critical human health risks (e.g., hospital-acquired infection, antibiotic resistance dissemination). We uncovered a combination of complex biological functions that may play a role in bacterial survival under the presumed selective pressures in a model built environment—the International Space Station—by using an approach to compare pangenomes of bacterial strains from two clinically relevant species (B. cereus and S. aureus) isolated from both built environments and humans.”

In a new study entitled “Pangenomic Approach To Understanding Microbial Adaptations within a Model Built Environment, the International Space Station, Relative to Human Hosts and Soil,” Northwestern University assistant professor of environmental engineering and study co-author Erica Hartmann describes how a team of researchers compared particularly dangerous bacteria on Earth — S. aureus is the staph-causing super-bane of hospitals – to samples of the same found on the ISS. That in itself is no surprise – it’s impossible to completely sterilize humans, let alone their stuff – but the impact of living in the hostile environment of the space station was expected to turn these bacteria into mutations far stronger than the superbugs they already are on Earth. Does it?

“The answer appears to be ‘no.'”

There goes the movie script but Hartmann’s conclusion is good news for present and future space travelers. While the bacteria is definitely muting in space, co-author Ryan Blaustein told Science Daily there’s a different reason for it.

“Based on genomic analysis, it looks like bacteria are adapting to live — not evolving to cause disease. We didn’t see anything special about antibiotic resistance or virulence in the space station’s bacteria.”

Is the fact that the “bacteria are adapting to live” really good news? The study concludes that the mutated ISS bacteria “do not appear to have direct impacts on human health,” but they’re looking at disease-causing impacts. Other studies like the one on twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly showed that living for a year in space had unexpected effects on Scott. What happens when bacteria “adapting to live” see an astronaut carrying a disinfectant wipe heading their way or spot their best friend on the hands of a space tourist about to Purell them?

Bye-bye bacteria or hello battle between humans and survivalist superbugs?

Movie plot or the future? Dr. Hartmann?

“But as we talk about expanding space flight to tourists who do not necessarily meet astronaut criteria, we don’t know what will happen. We can’t say that if you put someone with an infection into a closed bubble in space that it won’t transfer to other people. It’s like when someone coughs on an airplane, and everyone gets sick.”

Everyone … but the bacteria.

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I don’t like to stray too far into the speculative, but if you ask me, there’s a war currently going on in space that most of us don’t know about. Over the last decade, the world’s superpowers have been jockeying for position in the race to achieve space superiority. All sorts of secret satellite-based weapons or weaponized satellites have been put into position, setting the board for what will surely be a weird orbital chess match that could see fiery wreckage rain down on the unsuspecting planet below.

Whether or not that will happen anytime soon is anyone’s guess. One thing is sure though: there’s a lot of weird stuff happening in space. Secretive satellite launches, strange lights in the sky, and reports of spacecraft in orbit behaving strangely. On top of that, the President of the United States has declared the creation of a Space Force, and China is building bases on the dark side of the moon. Maybe it’s time to re-watch Moonraker for some tips on zero-gravity gun fighting.

It’s likely space will be the main battlefield for the next World War. Invest in a good telescope.

The latest clue that a war is brewing in space comes from New Zealand, where thousands of residents witnessed a strange sight on in the sky on January 5th. A fiery object streaked across the sky for nearly half a minute, breaking apart as it burned. Videos of the object were posted to social media and picked up by local news outlets. Some skywatchers speculated the object was a a meteorite, while others of course thought it was aliens. It’s always maybe aliens.

It turns out, the fireball could very well have been a Russian satellite of some kind. Richard Easther, physics chair at the University of Auckland, says he is “99 percent certain” the object was a Russian Kosmos 2430 satellite which was sent into orbit to protect against missile attacks from the United States. If that’s the case, what made it fall down? You guessed it, say it with me now: SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE! SPACE FORCE!

GET SOME, COMMIE SCUM

Maybe. Of course, the satellite could have reentered and burned up accidentally due to mechanical failure, user error, or who knows what else. It is the Russian space program, after all. With so many experimental weapons and secret satellites being launched, though, there’s no telling what could have brought this satellite down – if it was indeed a satellite. What exactly was seen in the skies over New Zealand?

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After much excitement and anticipation, the new historically-themed television drama Project Blue Book debuted last night on History, the A&E Networks-owned digital cable and satellite television network.

Project Blue Book, as UFO enthusiasts and history buffs are well aware, was the official U.S. Air Force inquiry into unidentified flying objects that ended in 1969. According to the website of the U.S. National Archives, “From 1947 to 1969, a total of 12,618 sightings were reported to Project BLUE BOOK. Of these 701 remain ‘Unidentified.’ The project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, whose personnel no longer receive, document or investigate UFO reports.”

Based loosely on this USAF investigative study, the new History series is centered around American astronomer J. Allen Hynek, portrayed by actor Aidan Gillen, who is taske with lending a scientific perspective to the Air Force inquiries into unidentified flying objects. Historically speaking, Hynek really was the primary scientific adviser to the Air Force study, and even after its closure in 1969, Hynek continued to advocate the scientific study of UFOs (see Mark O’Connell’s biography on Hynek, The Close Encounters Man, for further background on Hynek and his scientific work).

However, from the outset of the first episode of Project Blue Book, it will be clear to those with some historical knowledge of the real USAF program that the series blends some actual historical characters and events with a healthy dose of myth and speculation, drawing from other UFO literature unrelated to Hynek or past USAF studies.

Promotional image accompanying the release of History’s “Project Blue Book”

(Credit: A&E Networks).

Our intent here is not to “fact check” the program; it is, after all, merely a drama series which, as we will see, takes some pretty significant liberties with the actual historical facts (as much of History’s programming has done over the years). However, while obviously intended solely as entertainment, the inevitable result of programming like this is that it will be perceived by some viewers as a more accurate retelling of historical events than intended. Hence, it might be interesting to look at a few elements that appear in the first episode of the series and contrast them with actual historical facts and records.

Majestic 12

One of the earliest tropes from UFO literature that appears in the Project Blue Book series is that of Majestic 12 (or MJ-12 as it is often called). Even prior to the program’s opening titles, viewers are shown a clandestine-looking smoky room where 12 men are positioned around a circular table, the surface of which details an arresting (but overstated) eagle with North America in the grip of its talons. As they sit watching The Day the Earth Stood Still (just the sort of thing you’d imagine an Above Top Secret, presidentially-appointed UFO study group would do), actor Neal McDonough explodes into frame as General James Harding, angrily shouting at someone off-camera to “turn that thing off!” The rationale given for why this group of government insiders would be watching such a film is that such “propaganda” helps to control the official public narrative on the idea of extraterrestrial visitation.

While it makes for good storytelling, one of the problems with the Majestic 12 narrative is that it likely isn’t true, and therefore had little to do with the real-life Project Blue Book. Speculations about this secretive government group appointed by President Harry Truman are largely attributed to a series of documents that were anonymously sent to filmmaker Jamie Shandera in 1984. Analysis by ufologist Stanton Friedman led him to believe that at least some of the documents contained within the batch were real; however, a subsequent FBI analysis of the documents referred to them, famously, as “completely bogus,” and that the MJ-12 affair had been nothing more than a hoax. The origins of these documents remains a point of contention in UFO circles today, with many (including Friedman) arguing that while much of the information contained within is obviously fraudulent, certain other information from the batch could have some basis in fact.

One of the primary arguments Friedman and others have made in defense of the documents has to do with a separate document located in Record Group 341, entry 267 of the National Archives, popularly known as the “Cutler/Twining memo.” Since this document was located apart from the batch sent to Shandera in 1984 (and found at the National Archives, no less), it initially seemed to provide additional support for the idea of a Majestic 12 group. However, there are a number of problems with the document.

According to data provided at the website of the National Archives:

The document in question does not bear an official government letterhead or watermark. The NARA conservation specialist examined the paper and determined it was a ribbon copy prepared on “diction onionskin.” The Eisenhower Library has examined a representative sample of the documents in its collection of the Cutler papers. All documents in the sample created by Mr. Cutler while he served on the NSC staff have an eagle watermark in the bond paper. The onionskin carbon copies have either an eagle watermark or no watermark at all. Most documents sent out by the NSC were prepared on White House letterhead paper. For the brief period when Mr. Cutler left the NSC, his carbon copies were prepared on “prestige onionskin.”

Additionally, The National Archives performed a search of the Official Meeting Minute Files of the National Security Council, where they reported that they found “no record of a NSC meeting on July 16, 1954. A search of all NSC Meeting Minutes for July 1954 found no mention of MJ-12 nor Majestic.” The Cutler-Twining memorandum is widely suspected to also be fraudulent, planted in the National Archives as part of an effort to bolster the claims in the documents released to Shandera. This raises a number of questions, of course, as to who might have released the bogus documents in the first place, let alone who was tampering with files at the National Archives and then tipping off prominent UFO researchers about where they might be found.

Who Coined the Term “UFO”?

In the first episode of the Project Blue Book series, while J. Allen Hynek is speaking with his companion and USAF liaison Captain Michael Quinn (portrayed by actor Michael Malarkey), he refers to one of the alleged objects they are studying as a UFO, to which Quinn expresses some confusion. “Unidentified flying object,” Hynek explains. “I’m simply condensing the terminology you’ve been using, with my own touch. This is a new science we’re creating here, it needs its own terminology.”

The irony here is that Malarkey’s character, Captain Quinn, appears to be loosely based on Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first chief officer of Project Blue Book, appointed to the position in 1952 by Lt. Col. N. R. Rosengarten. Although Hynek’s scientific work and advocacy probably did more than anyone else to promote the UFO concept in his lifetime, it had actually been Ruppelt that coined the “UFO” acronym. Ruppelt felt that “flying saucer,” the popular term for UFOs up until that time, had not been ambiguous enough to accurately convey the physical appearance and other facets of the aerial phenomena being studied. Hence, he offered that unidentified flying object would be a suitable replacement, shortened to UFO (which Ruppelt pronounced “you-foe“).

Hynek: Cautious Believer, or Hopeful Skeptic? 

The Project Blue Book series so far depicts Hynek as being a cautious scientist, but one who nonetheless seems to believe there is something to the UFO mystery. This contrasts with the perspectives of Captain Quinn, whose instructions from “Higher Brass” (i.e. General James Harding) are essentially to write reports, and most importantly, play down the significance of the phenomenon.

J. Allen Hynek.

However, in real life, the circumstances had been just the opposite: from the outset, Hynek had actually been the skeptical party, and Ruppelt had seemed more inclined to believe that a valid and real phenomenon was at work. Point in case, it had been none other than J. Allen Hynek whose famous proposition of “swamp gas” in relation to odd lights seen over Michigan evoked so much ire in UFO circles. However, with time and further analysis, Hynek began to find it difficult to ignore some of the better UFO incidents; specifically, Hynek cited the famous Socorro, New Mexico incident of 1964, involving landing traces left by an unidentified aircraft observed by police officer Lonnie Zamora, as a turning point in his attitude toward UFOs.

Ruppelt, on the other hand, in his book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, had seemed to lay out the case that there was some kind of technology at work in at least some of the better UFO cases from the outset. However, in a second, revised edition of his book, Ruppelt toned down his apparent advocacy and took a more sharply critical tone toward UFOs, even referring to them as a “space age myth.” This led to speculation among some in UFO circles that Ruppelt had been “advised” to produce the more cautious update by those in higher authority; while there is no evidence for this, it remains true that no one had an opportunity to ask him about his change of heart: Ruppelt died shortly after publication of the second edition, shortly after having suffered a heart attack. He was only 37.

In sum, while Hynek is portrayed in the series as a “cautious believer” in conflict against a shadowy government organization who keeps a tight leash on his partner in crime, Captain Quinn, historically this dynamic was just the opposite: Hynek began essentially as a skeptic, and gradually warmed up to the UFO subject, while Ruppelt did just the opposite.

One final note about Ruppelt is warranted here, and that has to do with his relationship to the character of Captain Michael Quinn in the series. Although Project Blue Book director David O’Leary admits that the character is based somewhat on Ruppelt, he explained in a recent interview that he “changed (Quinn’s) name to dramatize certain aspects of his character, molding him into the perfect on-screen partner for Hynek.” This might help explain the contrast between the historical Ruppelt, and his on-screen counterpart (whose last name might have been inspired somewhat by Hector Quintanilla Jr., the last chief officer to oversee Project Blue Book before it was closed in 1969).

The Men in Black 

In the series, right from the outset we see that Hynek is pursued by shadowy “men in black,” whose identity and relationship to the broader UFO phenomenon remain in question. As with other aspects of the program that we’ve analyzed here, the idea of “men in black” is another that is borrowed from broader UFO lore, rather than one having to do with Hynek (although, as we’ll see, there may indeed be some relationship to Project Blue Book).

Perhaps the earliest mention of men in black, as far as UFO cases are concerned, occurred in reference to the 1947 Maury Island UFO Incident where one of the witnesses, Harold Dahl, claimed he had been advised to keep mum about what he saw by “a man in a black suit.” However, the more famous early appearance of men in black occurred when Albert K. Bender, founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau, claimed he was approached by three men in black suits, a story later commemorated in his book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men. 

In his book, Bender ascribed supernatural powers to these men, which included the ability to communicate with him telepathically. Whether or not the experience was rooted in any kind of fact or not (as some have speculated that the episode might have been inspired by a dream Bender had) is unclear. However, Bender’s associate Gray Barker would later publish a book that detailed the alleged event called They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. It was not the last book by Barker that would touch on the subject, and future publications continued to detail the ongoing mythos of the mysterious “men in black.”

In his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel further popularized the idea of men in black, recounting such incidents as the visitation of a Mrs. Butler by a man claiming to be with the U.S. Air Force, but who drove a Mustang and wore a civilian business-type suit, with leather shoes so new that she couldn’t see any scuff-marks on the bottoms when he sat cross-legged. Keel surmised that this man, who identified himself as “Richard French,” was no real USAF officer at all, but was instead an “impostor.”

Richard French

However, it turns out that there actually is an ex-USAF Lieutenant Colonel named Richard French, who worked with Project Blue Book during the Quintanilla years, which would have coincided with the period described by Keel in his book (it should also be noted that French’s claims about observing UFOs over the years, which include a submerged craft below the ocean off the coast the Newfoundland coast, seem preposterous). Hence, we can at least make the argument that there is a connection between a former USAF officer who was associated with Project Blue Book and claims of “men in black” that appear in UFO literature.

Altogether, History’s Project Blue Book is a fun show about an interesting subject, with some characters and themes that are at least loosely based in fact. However, as we illustrate here, the show borrows a number of themes from other UFO literature in order to “flesh out” the story, in addition to blending pure fiction with the appearance of at least a few actual people, namely the late J. Allen Hynek. In light of this, Project Blue Book is far from being an accurate representation of what Hynek and the U.S. Air Force were undertaking back in the 1960s, and to be clear, its producers never claimed that it would be.

All that said, as far as being an entertaining television program goes, we give it two thumbs up. So in conclusion, Project Blue Book may be one of the better UFO-themed productions to come out in recent years, and though it may not become renowned for its historical accuracy, it nonetheless presents some fun and entertaining food for thought on a subject that has remained both perplexing, and controversial, for many decades.

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Secret TR-3B flying at high altitude caught on night vision camera

A skywatcher has captured a TR-3B with his night vision camera at the moment the craft was flying at high altitude over the U.S. on January 1, 2019.

Even though the skywatcher does not give an explanation of what the object could be, it's clearly a TR-3B since it has colored lights that appear at each corner of the triangle and a light source in the middle of the craft.

The TR-3B comes into view at the top of the screen around the 0.21 mark in the video.

  

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UFO flying over British airways plane at Gatwick Airport, London UK 7th January 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 7, 2019

Location of sighting: Gatwick Airport, London, UK

 

This eyewitness caught a UFO flashing above the British airways jets at the Gatwick Airport. The airport was just closed last week due to drone activity and this may be one of the drones, but the eyewitness says this object is way too big to be a drone. 

 

As I have suggested last week, the reports of drones may be fake reports by the airport to confuse the public and lead them away from the truth...that this may be an alien craft that frequently visits the Gatwick Airport in London. Watch the video below and decide for yourself. 

Scott C. Waring

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UFO As Big As City Hovers Over Hong Kong, China On Jan 2019, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 2019

Location of sighting: Hong Kong, China

Source: Twitter report sent to @UFO_sightings_X

 

An eyewitness to this event sent this to me yesterday on Twitter. The said they saw a huge cloud hovering over Hong Kong, but the cloud was smooth like a UFO and hovered there for hours while other clouds passed it by. 

 

I have to agree that this is a large UFO hovering over Hong Kong. The UFO is not the typical disk craft but is more of a four end clover shape. What really gets me excited here is that you can clearly make out a fin or wing going around the craft. Also the UFO is making its own cloud as you can see from its back top center area...darker black cloud coming-out and blowing down the back tail area of the craft...but the UFO remains in place. This is as big as the city of Hong Kong! Amazing size. Proof that ET are interested in observing major cities. 

Scott C. Waring

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For UFO fans, History Channel’s ‘Project Blue Book’ show rings all too true to life

BY ALAN BOYLE 

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Mysterious repeating radio signals have reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away (but are they evidence of alien civilisations?)

• Fast radio bursts are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly
• Repeating signals of this type have only been found once before - in 2015
• Most experts believe they are created by powerful objects found in space
• Others say they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology

By TIM COLLINS FOR MAILONLINE

Mysterious repeating energy bursts have been detected for only the second time. 

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study. 

The latest signals to be detected reached Earth from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. 

The most likely explanation is that they were created by powerful objects in space.

Experts have debated whether black holes or super-dense neutron stars are responsible, but others have suggested more outlandish theories.

Among them is Professor Avid Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US, who believes that they could be evidence of incredibly advanced alien technology. 

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Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (pictured)

Video courtesy of CHIME Collaboration. 

FRB's were first detected accidentally in 2007, when a burst signal was spotted in radio astronomy data collected in 2001. 

The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by a Canadian-led team of astronomers on the hunt for FRBs. 

Over a period of three weeks last summer the team detected 13 of the flashes using a new type of radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime). 

They found that one of the FRBs was repeating. 

Of more than 60 FRBs detected to date, such repeating bursts have only been picked up once before, by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2015. 

Where the FRBs come from is not known - although they are thought to emanate from sources billions of light years away outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. 

Chime astrophysicist Dr Ingrid Stairs, from the University of British Columbia, Canada, said: 'Until now, there was only one known repeating FRB. 

'Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there. 

'And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them.' 

Fast radio bursts are elusive signals that last just a few milliseconds, and are thought to originate billions of light-years away – but, scientists don't yet know what causes them

(file photo)

Most of the 13 FRBs showed signs of 'scattering' that suggest their sources could be powerful astrophysical objects in locations with special characteristics, the scientists said. 

Team member Dr Cherry Ng, from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: 'That could mean in some sort of dense clump like a supernova (exploding star) remnant. 

'Or near the central black hole in a galaxy. But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see.' 

WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS AND WHY DO WE STUDY THEM?

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.

The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.

This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.

Scientists searching for fast radio bursts (FRBs) that some believe may be signals sent from aliens may be happening every second. The blue points in this artist's impression of the filamentary structure of galaxies are signals from FRBs

The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2001 but wasn't discovered until 2007 when scientists were analysing archival data.

But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it wasn't a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments. 

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics point out that FRBs can be used to study the structure and evolution of the universe whether or not their origin is fully understood.

A large population of faraway FRBs could act as probes of material across gigantic distances. 

This intervening material blurs the signal from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the left over radiation from the Big Bang. 

A careful study of this intervening material should give an improved understanding of basic cosmic constituents, such as the relative amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, which affect how rapidly the universe is expanding.

FRBs can also be used to trace what broke down the 'fog' of hydrogen atoms that pervaded the early universe into free electrons and protons, when temperatures cooled down after the Big Bang. 

The new FRBs are are also at unusually low radio frequencies. 

Most previously detected FRBs have had frequencies of around 1,400 megahertz (MHz), but the new ones fell within a range below 800 MHz. 

In 2017 Professor Loeb and Harvard colleague Manasvi Lingham proposed that FRBs could be leakage from planet-sized alien transmitters. 

Mysterious radio signals (artist's impression) have reached Earth - from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away. The strange beams are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - and last only a millisecond (file image) 

Rather than being designed for communication, they would more likely be used to propel giant space ships powered by light sails. 

A light sail works by bouncing light, or in this case radio beams, off a huge reflective sheet to provide forward thrust. 

Professor Loeb, who discusses the idea in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, said: 'An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.'

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Russia Announced They Have Found Alien Spaceship Wreckage In The Ice

Admiral Vladimir Prikhodko, the current director of a clandestine organization within the Russian navy, admits that the leading countries in the world like the US, Germany, China and his own Russia are spending millions on outer space exploration in an effort to find proof of alien life, discover other planets with Earth-like condition and gain a better understanding of the universe but he believes this approach is wrong.

Instead of investing in space explorations we should maybe focus more on the underground since it may be where all the answers lie.

Since the end of the Second World War, Russia has been known to focus on researching and exploring the possibilities of UFOs and whether or not they truly exist. Not so long ago, while searching underground they discovered strange objects, deep holes and caves with ancient glyphs and a spaceship wreckage deep under the ice.

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How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?

"Now, I don't believe an industrial civilization existed on Earth before our own — I don't think there was a dinosaur civilization or a giant tree sloth civilization," said study co-author Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York. "But the question of what one would look like if it did [exist] is important. How do you know there hasn't been one? The whole point of science is to ask a question and see where it leads. That's the essence of what makes science so exciting."

Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, said Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. For instance, they noted that urban areas currently take up less than 1 percent of Earth's surface, and that complex items, even from early human technology, are very rarely found.  A machine as complex as the Antikythera mechanism — which is considered to be the world's first computer from ancient Greece — remained unknown until the development of elaborate clocks in RenaissanceEurope.

One may also find it difficult to unearth fossils of any beings who might have lived in industrial civilizations, the scientists added. The fraction of life that gets fossilized is always extremely small: Of all the many dinosaurs that ever lived, for example, only a few thousand nearly complete fossil specimens of the "terrible lizards" have been discovered. Given that the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens are only about 300,000 years old, there is no certainty that our species might even appear in the fossil record in the long run, they added. [In Images: The Oldest Fossils on Earth]

Instead, the researchers suggested looking for more subtle evidence of industrial civilizations in the geological records of Earth or other planets. The scientists focused on looking at the signs of civilization that humans might create during the Anthropocene, the geological age characterized by humans' influence on the planet.

"After a few million years, any physical reminder of your civilization may be gone, so you have to look for sedimentary anomalies, things like different chemical balances that just look wacky," Frank said.

One sign of industrial civilization may have to do with isotopes of elements such as carbon. (Isotopes of an element vary in how many neutrons they possess in their atomic nuclei — for example, carbon-12 has six neutrons, while carbon-13 has seven.)

For instance, humans living in industrial civilizations have burned an extraordinary amount of fossil fuels, releasing more than 500 billion tons of carbon from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels ultimately derive from plant life, which preferentially absorb more of the lighter isotope carbon-12 than the heavier isotope carbon-13. When fossil fuels get burned, they alter the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 normally found in the atmosphere, ocean and soils — an effect that could later be detected in sediments as hints of an industrial civilization.

In addition, human industrial civilizations have also discovered ways to artificially "fix nitrogen" — that is, to break the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms together in pairs in the atmosphere, using the resulting single nitrogen atoms to create biologically useful molecules. The large-scale application of nitrogenous fertilizers generated via nitrogen fixing is already detectable in sediments remote from civilization, the scientists noted.

The Anthropocene is also triggering a mass extinction of a wide variety of species that's likely visible in the fossil record. Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long-lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

One wild idea the Silurian hypothesis raises is that the end of one civilization could sow the seeds for another. Industrial civilizations may trigger dead zones in oceans, causing organic material (from the corpses of organisms in the zones) to get buried that could, down the line, become fossil fuels that could support a new industrial civilization. "You could end up seeing these cycles in the geological record," Frank said.

All in all, thinking about the impact that a previous civilization has on Earth "could help us think about what effects one might see on other planets, or about what is happening now on Earth," Frank said.

Schmidt and Frank detailed their findings online April 10 in a study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal International Journal of Astrobiology.

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High Increase in UFO Sightings in Belgium Last Year and Nobody Knows Why

10 percent of all UFO reports are the unexplainable.

By Heathcliff

 

Every year the number of UFO reports rises worldwide.

In 2018 the Belgian UFO hotline registered 180 sightings of strange aerial phenomena.

This is an increase of 34.3 percent in comparison to the number of reports from 2017 (134 observations). This is evident from the annual report of the Belgian UFO hotline.

Most UFOs were spotted In the province of East Flanders

Also, an increase in

The French COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phenomenes Spatiaux) received last year 76 UFO reports, also increased compared to the previous year.

The increase in the number of UFO reports — which has become a yearly habit — occurs especially during July and August. Both months together valued 44 reports.

This large number of observations can be largely explained by the warm weather at that time.

No explanation

In October, there were significantly more reports than the monthly average. This can be partly explained by the exceptionally low cloud cover that month.

Many UFOs are fairly quickly explained as airplanes, stars or the ISS, but a number of reports, are still a mystery.

For example, a bright green ribbon-shaped object was spotted in the Netherlands, which is still unexplained.

Strange movements

And on August someone saw in Sommerain, Luxembourg, a star-shaped object made strange movements.

“It started as a bright object: white-blue, as large as the star Vega, which did not move at first,” describes the witness.

“The ‘star’ was moving to the west at an unusual rate. Not very fast, but not slow,” he said. “At times the ‘star’ stopped and looked like it hesitated.”

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